Religious Quotes · Page 119

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

— Marianne Williamson

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

— Albert Einstein

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

— Joyce Meyer

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

— Christopher Hitchens

Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family.

— Stephen Colbert

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

— Dolly Parton

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

— Nathanael Emmons

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual,…

— Sinead O'Connor

The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis…

— Frederick Lenz

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that…

— Bobby Jindal

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and…

— Albert Einstein

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only…

— Joseph Prince

It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant…

— Golda Meir

In our nation a new and insidious form of religious hatred is developing. I believe there is an attempt to create hatred…

— Paul McGuire

To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will…

— Pope Francis

[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting…

— H. Verlan Andersen

In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English…

— Thomas Merton

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern…

— Darrel Ray

... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when…

— Whittaker Chambers

Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's…

— Robert Kiyosaki

The mind of a man that loves God does not fight against things or thoughts about them, but against the passions that…

— Maximus the Confessor

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body…

— George Combe

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

— Charles Spurgeon

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

— Joseph Addison

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

— Taslima Nasrin

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

— Baron d'Holbach

Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.

— Pat Swindall

I'm not Christian, but I'm religious. I believe in a higher God and beings and spirits.

— Gunplay

Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose.

— Neale Donald Walsch

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Plants are so important to the ancients for medicine and in a religious aspect - and in hemlock!

— Bettany Hughes

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

— Edward Alsworth Ross

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

— Erich Fromm

“This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..." "A religious experience?" "Exactly! It's like going to church...”

— J.G. Ballard

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“the level of tolerance for religious differences is much greater than the politically correct crowd would have us believe.”

— Ben Carson

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

— Andy Stanley

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

— George Eliot